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...scored three goals, and co-captain Michael Byrd added two. Sophomore Dan Furman added a key goal at the end of the first quarter to stake the Crimson to a commanding 5-2 lead. Harvard never looked back en route to victory. “It was a solid team effort all the way around,” Farrar said. HARVARD 10, FORDHAM 5 The Crimson topped the Rams in the first game of the day, outplaying Fordham throughout the second half. “We strangled them to death in the second half,” Farrar said. Tied...
...were required. In such a world, senseless purchases weren’t about ordering bagged lunches and checking up on nutrition facts; they were about proving how much better and more elegant we were than everyone else. Whither went our intricately carved wooden chairs? Our tables crafted from aged, solid oak covered in soft, silken tablecloths? Our bow-tied and jacketed service staff? The degrading and dishonorable concept of self-service—requesting our own meals on high-tech kiosks, for example—had as large a place in this elegant world of silk and mahogany as women...
...Virgin Queen to impose on her. In Whitehall, Walter Raleigh is spreading his coat over the mythical puddle so his sovereign will not dampen her dainty feet as she strolls toward her distinguished destiny. Meantime, spies and assassins scuttle through the corridors of power, the torture chambers are booked solid for the foreseeable future and Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett, playing a woman 17 years her senior) allows herself to be smitten by Raleigh (the internationally cuddlesome Clive Owen...
...boarding department, Drew was a leader, though never flamboyantly so. Solid, dependable, inventive, and sensitive to the needs and moods of adults and kids alike, she was able to win the trust of not just her dorm-mates but others as well. Somehow, instinctively, she knew the difference between plotting in fun to paint the bathtubs blue and going out to buy the paint...
...much of the Arab world.But when the authors attempt to extend this argument into the modern day by claiming that the Israel lobby has brought America significant trouble in recent years, even contributing heavily to our entrance into the war in Iraq, their arguments begin to rely on less solid evidence and start to wear thin.Their section on “The Lobby and the Iraq War” contains surprisingly little mention of actual pro-Israel groups and instead focuses on neoconservative war hawks. The authors’ main shortcoming is particularly clear here: they are too ready...